NPI Quality Engineer

Vecmocon; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Vecmocon in Dadri, India, seeks a seasoned NPI Project Lead to drive new product introductions from prototype through pilot and mass production, coordinating cross‑functional teams and resolving design and process gaps.

You will own NPI plans, timelines, milestones, risk reviews, and action trackers, ensuring manufacturing readiness across SMT, PCB, assembly, testing, and quality gates with timely closure of open points.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to own and deliver NPI programs from concept to mass production.
• Strong leadership across engineering, manufacturing, and QA functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead NPI projects from prototype to mass production.
• Prepare and maintain NPI project plans, timelines, milestones, and trackers.
• Drive cross-functional meetings and ensure timely closure of open points.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, and potential delays and implement mitigation actions.
• Ensure NPI milestones align with project/customer timelines.
• Review BOMs, drawings, specs, part numbers, revisions, and engineering requirements before production.
• Coordinate with R&D/Design to resolve design issues identified during prototype/pilot builds.
• Review engineering changes and ensure proper ECN implementation.

Skills

NPI project ownership

Cross-functional team management

Job description

ROLE

• Lead NPI activities from prototype build through pilot production to mass‑production handover
• Prepare and maintain NPI project plans, timelines, milestones, and action trackers
• Drive cross‑functional meetings and ensure timely closure of open points
• Identify project risks, dependencies, and potential delays and implement mitigation actions
• Ensure NPI milestones are completed according to project/customer timelines
• Manage multiple NPI projects simultaneously
• Review and validate BOMs, drawings, specifications, part numbers, revisions, and engineering requirements before production
• Ensure product design is suitable for manufacturing and assembly
• Coordinate with R&D/Design teams to resolve design‑related issues identified during prototype and pilot builds
• Review engineering changes and ensure proper implementation through ECR/ECN processes
• Control change implementation across Production, Quality, Supplier, and related functions
• Drive manufacturing readiness for new products before pilot and mass production, coordinating SMT, THT, wave soldering, PCB assembly, mechanical assembly, programming, FCT, PDI, and final inspection activities
• Identify process gaps during prototype/pilot builds and drive corrective actions
• Ensure availability and readiness of all production equipment, tooling, fixtures, jigs, testers, and workstations
• Support process optimization, cycle‑time improvement, and line balancing
• Ensure material, manpower, tooling, fixtures, test equipment, documentation, and process readiness before builds
• Monitor pilot production, identify recurring process/product issues, and track first‑pass yield, rejection, rework, and performance during ramp‑up
• Drive closure of all critical issues before mass‑production release
• Coordinate development of production jigs, fixtures, pallets, test setups, FCT/PDI systems, programming tools, and inspection fixtures; review designs with relevant teams
• Establish preventive maintenance and ownership requirements for critical production fixtures and testers; ensure test equipment capability and repeatability before production release
• Drive RCA, 8D, CAPA, and corrective/preventive actions for NPI‑related issues; incorporate lessons learned into new product development
• Ensure complete and controlled handover of the product from NPI to Production, verifying availability of approved BOM, released drawings, firmware/software, SOP/WI, PFD/PFMEA/Control Plan, test specifications, validated fixtures and jigs, inspection criteria, packaging standards, and quality records; conduct formal production handover and close all critical open points

REQUIREMENTS

• Proven experience in NPI project ownership and execution
• Strong cross‑functional team management skills